Republicans are making their last stand

The election of 2012 was a proverbial wake-up call to the Republican Party, when GOP leaders realized that their presidential candidates have little chance of winning future elections without the votes of Latinos, younger generations and women. Events in 2013 are shaping up as the defining year for that party's future. Voters are watching how state and national Republicans handle the legislative responses to such momentous actions like the Supreme Court decisions on the Voting Rights Act and the Defense of Marriage Act, the expected vote on comprehensive immigration reform and the abortion-bill filibuster in Texas and the U.S. House of Representatives' abortion-limiting bill.

Clearly, the stagnant Republican guard is digging in to make its last stand. With Republican control of statehouses, like in Indiana, and some congressional seats through gerrymandering, they will win a few more victories. But those victories will be short-lived. Future Democratic presidents will appoint more Supreme Court judges and Latinos will vote in larger numbers. Progressive Republicans and independents, especially young adults and females, will join the ever-increasing tide of the big tent Democratic Party to overrun the Republican old guard's last stand and to move our country forward.

Henry Fernandez

Indianapolis

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Republicans are making their last stand

The election of 2012 was a proverbial wake-up call to the Republican Party, when GOP leaders realized that their presidential candidates have little chance of winning future elections without the